Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Misérables is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. It is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children, the prostitutes and the criminals. In telling the story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, and his efforts to reform his ways and care for the little orphan girl he rescues from a life of cruelty, Victor Hugo drew attention to the plight of the poor and oppressed. Les Miserables is a masterful detective story, a comic and tragic story of romance and revolution and, ultimately, a tale of redemption and hope.

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There are plenty of translations of this extensive, exuberant novel that cut out anything superfluous. But God is in the detail, and Julie Rose has returned all the detail, making a language that is rich and gorgeous. This is the one to read... and if you are flying, just carry it under your arm as you board, or better still, rebook your holiday and go by train, slowly, page by page... (Jeanette Winterson The Times)

This new translation...marvelously removes the yellowed varnish from Hugo's prose and gives us the racy, breathless, and passionate intelligence of the original ( Adam Gopnik)

This a lively, dramatic, and wonderfully readable translation of one of the greatest 19th-century novels (Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Of Foreign Affairs)

One of the finest French Romantic writers ( Guardian)

I sobbed and wailed and thought (books) were the greatest things (Susan Sontag)

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'Still grips the reader with its epic-narrative sweep and all-embracing humanitarianism' Douglas Kennedy, Sunday Times

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Book Description Vintage Classics, London, 2008. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is a very fine copy of this Vintage Classic edition translated from the French by Julie Rose with an introduction by Adam Thirlwell and annotated by by James Madden. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bookseller Inventory # 001446

Book Description Vintage Classics, 2008. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. 1st Edition. Near fine condition.Vintage Books,2008.First UK edition-first printing(2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the cover) with Dj(two small nicks,crease and ink mark on the edges of the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Illustrated inside the front and back cover.Nice and clean pages as new with a small ink mark on the outer edges,previous owner's inscription written inside the front endpaper,a couple of small creases and ink mark on the edges of the pages.Nice and clean book.1364pp including Biographical note,translator's preface,chronology,notes.Price un-clipped.A collectable first edition.Please note: This is heavy book (approx 1.9 Kg). This is another paragraph Product Description: Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Mis?rables is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. It is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children, the prostitutes and the criminals. In telling the story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, and his efforts to reform his ways and care for the little orphan girl he rescues from a life of cruelty, Victor Hugo drew attention to the plight of the poor and oppressed. Les Miserables is a masterful detective story, a comic and tragic story of romance and revolution and, ultimately, a tale of redemption and hope. Bookseller Inventory # 6552